A FEW OF THE ACTORS, DIRECTORS and PLAYWRIGHTS WHO HAVE WORKED WITH ELTC

﻿Robert Aberdeen is a veteran of five Broadway shows: The Passion of Joseph D, the original Fiddler on the Roof, Billy Budd, Royal Hunt of the Sun, and Citizen Thom Paine. Off-Broadway credits include The Seagull, with Joe Namath in the cast, and the Pulitzer Prize winning A Soldier’s Play that also toured, including internationally, to the Edinburgh Festival. Magic and illusion have always fascinated Robert, and he starred in the international tour of The Magic Show and in his own television special Magic Maestro Please. He played Houdini in American Vaudeville at the Alley Theater in Houston. He’s appeared in several films, recently playing Attorney General Bromnell, speaking to President Eisenhower played by Robin Williams, in The Butler. On television, he was in Macbeth, and was a regular on the daytime serial, Love of Life. For ELTC, Robert performed in The Dictator (2001), Spoon River, The Mouse Trap by William Dean Howells and William Gillette’s Sherlock Holmes. Mr. Aberdeen’s magic is seen on the road as one of ELTC’s touring productions, and he has performed at several ELTC fundraisers. He first performed Victorian Magic for East Lynne at The Chalfonte Hotel in Cape May, NJ, and continues to perform in this production as well as other “magical” theater pieces around the country.

﻿Beckley Andrews, for ELTC, Huckelberry Finn and The First Fifty Years, and choreographed dances for Zorro! and the student production of The Dancing Princesses. A native of rural Glocester, RI, she began entertaining by singing and dancing for the family’s pets. She began formal training and participated in many dance and vocal competitions. Beckley was welcomed into Kaleidoscope Theatre, a professional touring company that produces original fairytale musicals. She went on to earn her BA in Theatre Performance at Rhode Island College and has performed, choreographed and toured throughout the United States, Europe, on the High Seas and on The Great White Way. Some favorite roles include Jenny Lind in Barnum, The Plant in The Little Shop of Horrors, Toadpipe the Gargoyle in the stage adaption of C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters and Caroline the dancing cow in the Broadway production of Gypsy starring Patti LuPone. She is a member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA.

​Jared Noah Aronoff played Wint Selby in ELTC's Ah, Wilderness! Previously with ELTC, in 205, he worked as a production assistant and intern. Recent theater credits: Our Town, Temple Theaters (dir. Douglas Wager); The Secret Garden (u/s), Arden Theatre Company (dir. Terrance Nolen); Comedy of Errors, REV Theatre Company (dir. Rosey Hay); Godspell, Temple Theaters (dir. Amina Robinson, Dan Dunn); Mime Guy, Philadelphia Young Playwrights (dir. Amy Blumberg, David Ingram); Jared has also been seen in several television shows including The Good Wife (CBS), Mercy (NBC) and How to Make it in America (HBO). As well as performing, Jared loves working as an acting and vocal coach, previously teaching in the greater Philadelphia area. In 2017, he produced, directed and performed in a cabaret in which all proceeds benefited Planned Parenthood. Jared holds a B.A. in Theater from Temple University, concentrating in musical theater and acting. Member AEA.

Aaron Bell was in ELTC's Rodgers' Romance. Regional: A Single Shard(People’s Light), An Octoroon(Wilma), Hands Up (Flashpoint), Bitter Homes and Gardens(Bearded Ladies Cabaret), We Are Proud to Present(Philly Fringe), One Minute Play Festival(InterAct), Miz Martha Washington(Flashpoint). Proud AEA and IATSE member.

Jennie Bissell: With East Lynne Theater Company: A Year in the Trenches, Strictly Dishonorable, Within the Law, and The Late Christopher Bean. Other credits include: Mame (Bucks County Playhouse); Hairspray, Spring Awakening, and Tommy (Media Theatre); Tolstoy's The Power of Darkness (Mint Theater Company). She received her MFA in Classical Acting at the Shakespeare Theatre/ George Washington University, and holds a BFA from NYU-Tisch.

Connor J. Burke (Arthur) ELTC debut! Past favorite roles include Frog in Tall Green Plumber: The Musical, Bobby in Company, Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night, Vealtninc Husz in A Bright Room Called Day, and Mortiz Stiefel in Spring Awakening, all at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, PA. He is excited for Ah, Wilderness! to be his first theatre production in "the real world" after graduation.

Patrick Burr was in ELTC's Rodgers' Romance. Since graduating from NYU Tisch in 2014 where he studied in the New Studio for Musical Theater as well as in the Classical Studio, he has performed up and down the East Coast, most notably touring the Southeast with the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and appearing in Kenneth Branagh’s Macbeth at the Park Avenue Armory in New York. Patrick was most recently seen as Anthony in the Red Branch Theater Company’s production of Sweeney Todd in Baltimore where he is currently based. Additionally, Patrick is a writer, piano player, and hiker, and has apprenticed under one of New York’s top pastry chefs. .

Jan Buttram ELTC produced the NJ premiere of her powerful play Lost on the Natchez Trace. She began her professional theatre career as an actress with the New Orleans Repertory Theatre under the direction of June Havoc. She has since acted Off Broadway, Off-Off Broadway, and in regional theatres. Her plays have been produced in New York by the York Theatre, Pulse Ensemble Theatre, Circle Rep Lab, Lightning Strikes Theatre Co., and Abingdon Theatre Company, which introduced her “comedy with hymns,” Glory Girls. Other plays include Zona, The Ghost of Greenbrier, Private Battles, The Parker Family Circus, Phantom Killer, and Lost on the Natchez Trace. Her plays Captive and The Parker Family Circus are published by Samuel French (The Parker Family Circus was selected by Smith & Kraus for The Best Scenes for Actors of 2001–02). Her play Texas Homos (directed by Tony® award winner Melvin Bernhardt) was presented on Abingdon’s mainstage and is published by Smith and Kraus in Best New Playwrights of 2005. HX Magazine nominated Texas Homos as the “Best Gay Themed Play of the Season." She received commissions to create original scripts for Capital Rep and Greenbrier Valley Theatre. Her play Backwoods won the 1995 Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center’s Fund for New American Plays. Her short plays are published in several anthologies by Heineman Books and included in Smith and Kraus' Best Ten Minute Plays of 2011. A founding member and Artistic Director of Abingdon Theatre Company, a not-for-profit company located in Manhattan dedicated to developing and producing new plays by American playwrights, she led the company from 1994-2017. She is a University of North Texas graduate. Member AEA.﻿

﻿﻿﻿Tom Byrn has performed with ELTC since 2009, most recently in two solo shows, Will Rogers U.S.A., and Mr. Lincoln, which was part of ELTC's 2015-2016 season and toured to Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble in PA. Recently, he appeared in The Importance of Being Earnest at Cider Mill Playhouse in Endicott, NY. He has acted at various theaters in the Philadelphia area, including, People's Light & Theatre, Interact, Lantern, and Act II Playhouse, and at various theaters in PA, NY, and OH. Tom is an Associate Member of the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, where he spent eleven years as a full-time Ensemble Member, acting, directing, writing, and teaching. He is co-editor of the trade paperback Letters to the Editor (Simon & Schuster), a member of the Lincoln Center Director's Lab, and a graduate of Vassar College. He resides in the Susquehanna River Valley of central PA. Member AEA.

﻿Samuel Douglas Clark, for ELTC portrayed Martin in ELTC's two-hander about marriage, The First Fifty Years, several roles in the world premiere adaptation of Huckleberry Finn written by James Rana, and the title role in Dracula. Before moving to New York, Sam worked extensively in Australia on a range of projects including developing and performing in two new Australian works, the verbatim theatre piece, April's Fool by David Burton and the cabaret, Often I Find That I am Naked by Fiona Sprott, both of which toured nationally. NY theater credits: The Club (Australian Made) and Village Voices (Frack Theatre, as producer). Film and TV credits include Forever (ABC), Sea Patrol 3: Red Gold (Nine Network) and Panic (Clearwater Films). He is a proud member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA, for more info check out www.samueldclark.com.

﻿﻿Karen Case Cook is a proud member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA and Stage Directors and Choreographers. With ELTC as an actor: Ruth Draper's Company of Characters,You and I, The Ransom of Red Chief and Two-Headed for which she received The Jacoby Outstanding Acting Award. Other Acting Highlights: Sister Aloysius/Doubt; Mrs. Graves/Enchanted April, Dr. Vivian Bearing/Wit (Women's Theater Company of NJ); Emilia/Othello (Arkansas Rep); Mrs. Malaprop/The Rivals (Jean Cocteau Rep); Edith/Blithe Spirit (Barter Theater). Directing Highlights: The Guardsman, Alice on the Edge and the world premieres of Helpful Hints and Emma Goldman: My Life (ELTC); Tom Jacobson's The Twentieth-Century Way (2011 Philadelphia Premiere and 2012 Global Equality Forum); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Beijing, China); Hot L Baltimore, As You Like It, and The Winter's Tale (Stella Adler Conservatory/NYU); Dad Doesn't Dance (2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival); Don Juan in Hell, On the Verge, A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (Phoenix Theatre Ensemble NYC); Mass Appeal, Shadows of Poe and Ibsen's Ghosts (Dave McCracken Producer, NYC). Karen earned a BA in Bacteriology and previously worked with Medical Research teams in New York and Connecticut. ELTC nominated Karen for Theatre Communication Group's prestigious Alan Schneider Director Award﻿ in 2011. ﻿

﻿Suzanne Dawson has played leading roles off-Broadway in: CBS Live, The Last Musical Comedy, The Great American Backstage Musical, and the revival of New Faces of ’52. Her regional credits include Sylvia at Florida Studio Theatre, The Snowball and A Little Night Music at Buffalo Studio Arena, Carnival at The Alliance in Atlanta, and Rumors at Paper Mill Playhouse here in NJ. She toured with Rumors, and opposite Gavin Macleod in Last of the Red Hot Lovers. ELTC shows include: To the Ladies!, Alice on the Edge,The Butter and Egg Man, Berkeley Square, The World of Dorothy Parker, Dulcy, Ruth Draper’s Company of Characters, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Zorro!Member AEA. ﻿﻿﻿﻿

﻿Craig Fols played Davenport in ELTC's The Late Christopher Bean. He is an actor/writer/director who grew up in South Jersey and now divides his time between New York City and Cape May. Notable acting credits include playing Colleen Dewhurst's son right out of drama school, getting his Equity card touring Alaska as a young man with cerebral palsy in David Freeman's drama Creeps, and impersonating a bored yuppie husband in a Dr. Pepper commercial, which premiered on the Super Bowl. He originated the dramatic role of Kenneth Halliwell in Lanie Robertson's Nasty Little Secrets (World Premiere, Walnut Street Theatre; New York Premiere, Primary Stages) and the musical role of The Hero in The Musical of Musicals, which he played for more than 500 performances off-Broadway. You can download him singing on iTunes (Musical of Musicals cast album) or buy his plays on Amazon.com (Buck Simple in The Best American Short Plays 1994-95.) Member AEA and SAG-AFTRA.

Sydney Freihofer played Mildred in Ah, Wilderness!, her first production with ELTC. Sydney is a sophomore at Mainland Regional High School where she was last seen portraying Sister Mary Parrick in Sister Act! She also played Glory in Almost, Maine. She loves doing theatre with The Broadway Theatre of Pitman (Camelot, Man of La Mancha), Bellarine Theatre Company (Legally Blonde), MoorArts (Aida), Off Broad Street Players (Oliver!), as well as many school and community theatre productions.

﻿Stephanie Garrett played Mary in ELTC's NJ premiere of Jan Buttram's Lost on the Natchez Trace. She also performed in ELTC’s Women and the Vote, Rain, The People of Cape May v. Johan Van Buren, and Christmas in Black and White with Gayle Stahlhuth. She performs regularly for the company’s popular “Tales of the Victorians,” where company members read classic American stories to patrons at local B&Bs and tea shops. Over fifteen years ago, as a volunteer at Historic Cold Spring Village, she became a storyteller, specializing in early 19th Century Cape May County African American History. Stephanie has a BA and MA in Sociology and worked as a Sociologist and Human Resources Manager during her career in Federal Government. Upon early retirement she received the Meritorious Service Award, the highest award given by the Department of Navy to a civilian employee. She is past President of the Greater Cape May Historical Society.

Charles Gilbert (Music Director): is an educator, writer, composer and director who has spent nearly forty years making provocative original work for the musical stage and training young artists for professional careers in musical theater. He headed the Musical Theater Program at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia from its inception in 1990 until 2008, and served from 2008 to 2013 as Director of the Ira Brind School of Theater Arts at UArts. He is a two-time Barrymore Award nominee for his music direction at the Arden Theater in Philadelphia, and he recently served as music director for the premiere production of The Three Maries at the Prince Theater. Other music directing credits include The Fantasticks (People’s Light and Theater Company), The Middle of Nowhere (Prince Music Theater), Cabaret (Gretna Theater), Forever Plaid (Newmarket Cabaret Theater) and The Dinosaur Musical (Arden Theater, premiere production). Charlie is composer in residence for Enchantment Theater Company, where his most recent work includes Peter Rabbit Tales (national tour) and The Beast in the Bayou (Philadelphia area tour). His works for the musical stage include Assassins (1979, source of the idea for the Sondheim musical of the same name) and Gemini the Musical (with Albert Innaurato, Philadelphia 2004, New York 2007), and he was Musical Theater Coordinator for Kevin Smith’s 2002 film Jersey Girl. www.chasgilbert.com

﻿Ken Glickfeld has appeared in NYC with Flux Theater Ensemble, Atlantic Theater Company, American Globe Theatre, Common Ground Stage and Film Co., Peculiar Works, Grace Rep, The Workshop Theater Company, and The Deptford Players, among others. Recent NY credits include Deinde, Can You Hear Their Voices?, Angel Eaters, Two Gentleman of Verona, Blood of the Bear, Uncle Vanya, The Arrangement, Journey’s End, The Bogus Bride, Privileged and Confidential, Mitya’s Ordeal, and Three Christs. Regional Credits include Sherlock’s Last Case, Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, Speed the Plow, One Shoe Off, Twelfth Night and Taming of the Shrew. Films: Don’t Drink the Water (Woody Allen, Dir.), The Accountant (Glenn Gers, Dir), Deadline (series), Soldiers In The Shadows and played “God” in Spaceship for IFC. For ELTC, he performed in Within the Law,The New York Idea, The Voice of the City (Jacoby Award for Best Actor), Sherlock Holmes, Rain, Why Marry? and To the Ladies! Member SAG-AFTRA and AEA.

Brigid Harrington played Muriel McComber in ELTC's Ah, Wilderness! Broadway: Mary Poppins (Jane Banks), The 23rd Annual Gypsy of the Year (Mary Poppins, 1st runner up for Best Stage Presentation). Regional: Irving Berlin's White Christmas (Susan Waverly, Walnut Street Theatre), Annie (Annie), Scrooge (Tiny Tim). Can be heard daily on the Disney Channel as the voice of "Koko" in Chuggington. Other TV: FX’s Louie, Discovery ID’s Momsters, A&E’s Bloodwork; featured voice over/singer on Nickelodeon shows; national TV and radio commercials; the feature film Lullaby, and the web series Redheads Anonymous. She was in the workshop of Middle School: A Story of Survival directed by Lonny Price. She originated the role of “Charlotte” in Once ‘Round the Circle by Shanan Estreicher, performed for the recording at Avatar Studios and performed at The Emerging Artists Theatre’s New Work Series. Favorite Performances: Michael Mitnick Concert at Joe’s Pub, Broadway Sessions at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, and America’s Got Talent Season 5 with her sister Shannon. Brigid recently completed filming the role of “Julie” for the new movie Benji The Dove which features Eli Tokash and Lynn Cohen. While working on several pilots, she’s searching for a University where she can major in acting. Member Actors Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA. For more on Brigid, please visit BrigidHarrington.com or facebook.com/BrigidHarringtonActor or on Twitter @BidHarrington

Rachel Holt played Belle in ELTC's Ah, Wilderness! and Lucy Seward in Dracula. Other theatre Credits: The Alchemist, The Shakespeare Theatre Company (dir. Michael Kahn); The Receptionist & Songs of the Dragon Flying to Heaven, The Studio Theatre; Da, Olney Theatre Center; Fahrenheit 451, Round House Theatre Company; An Ideal Husband, Walnut Street Theatre; Stick Fly (u/s), Arden Theatre Company; The Sisters of Ellery Hollow, Born Normal, The Capital Fringe Festival; The Empirical Eskimo, Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival (NYC); Scrambled, Theatre Ariel; Surrender by Rachel Holt, Philly Fringe 2013; Lily's Purple Plastic Purse, Philadelphia Children’s Theatre Company; Once Upon a River, Hedgerow Theatre; Neighbor’s, Vagabond Acting Troupe. Rachel has many commercial, industrial, film and tv credits. B.A. in Theatre from West Chester University and an MFA in Acting from The Catholic University of America. Proud member AEA.

﻿Stephen Humes played Henry Greene) in ELTC's Strictly Dishonorable. He recently returned from a season with the Lyric Repertory Company in Logan, Utah. New York: Take Ten Theatre Festival. Selected Regional:The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Last Train to Nibroc (Lyric Repertory Co.), As You Like It (Valley Shakespeare Festival), A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet (CT Free Shakespeare), Into the Woods (Northern Stage), Monty Python’s Spamalot (New London Barn Playhouse) and Songs for a New World (Jimmy Fund). Ithaca College:Gone Missing (Man 1), Mere Mortals (Chuck II/Degas), Spring Awakening (Hanschen) and The Shadow Box (Mark). Stephen is a native of Connecticut and currently lives in NYC. Thanks to RKS Management, Gayle and Lee. Love to friends and family! BFA: Ithaca College. @actrsgh / www.stephenhumes.com﻿

﻿Patrick Hyland appeared in ELTC's Within the Law, and worked for the company backstage and at the box office. A former model and talent scout, Patrick worked at FringeArts in Philadelphia during their 2013 season. ﻿

Veronique Hurley played Slade Kinnicott in ELTC's Biography. This summer she played Olivia in The Glass Eye’s production of Twelfth Night. Other New York Credits include: Women are Crazy Because Men are A**holes (Cherry Lane Theatre), As You Like It (The Glass Eye), Hunting and Gathering (The Glass Eye), One Eye Gone (Vacant Lot Theatre), Pilgrims of the Night (Night Wind Productions), Antarctica, Where it is Very, Very Warm, (Blow Out Theatre Company), Regional Credits Include: Noises Off, To Kill A Mockingbird, Christmas Carol, (The Hartford Stage Company) Moon Over Buffalo, Romantic Fools, (Cape May Stage), and Around the World in 80 Days, (Playhouse on Park). won best ensemble, Broadwayworld.com, Veronique would like to dedicate all performances to her mother.

﻿Seth James was in ELTC's Within the Law and The Late Christopher Bean. In January of 2015, he journeyed to northern Italy to teach Shakespeare to Italian students and perform Hamlet. NYC credits include Luft Gangster, You Never Can Tell (T Schreiber), Fuente Ovejuna, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Nylon Fusion), Henry V (American Globe) and Hamlet, as well as numerous one-act festivals and short films. Regional: To Kill a Mockingbird, Next Fall (Bristol Valley Theater). BFA, Marymount Manhattan College.﻿

​Maggie Johnsonwas in ELTC's Rodgers' Romance. Other credits include Dora in the Wilma Theater’s production of An Octoroon, Mary Tilford in The Children’s Hour, Sally in Cat in the Hat (Arden Theatre Co.), Bitter Homes and Gardens (Bearded Ladies Cabaret), Factory Girls (11th Hour Theatre Co.), and The Secret Garden (11th Hour Theatre Co.). TV: HBO’s Masterclass Series with Patti Lupone. Training: BFA musical Theatre from the University of the Arts. She is a 2011 YoungArts Finalist and Silver Winner in Theatre.

David-Michael Kenney “DMK” (Director): For over 40 years he has focused his life on theater and live events. The energy that connects with an audience during a live performance is a unique experience each time. It is a shared sensation never replicated. Creating and presenting performances is his fulfilment. DMK embraced theater while attending Radnor High School with summers spent at the Villanova University Shakespeare Festival. At Temple University he degreed in Theatre Stage Management and Directing. Over the years he has stage managed and directed in Philadelphia, New York and California. He staged cabaret performances for Julie Wilson, Jane Norman (aka Pixanne), Rosie Carlino and Lois Sage. Directed productions ranging from Pirates of Penzance to Always Patsy Cline, and he created Rodgers' Romance. He wrote and produced numerous audience participation Murder Mystery Weekends performed in America, Canada and the Caribbean. DMK is most pleased and fortunate to once again join creative forces with Charles Gilbert. David-Michael is grateful for the love and support of his wife, and his father.

﻿Holly Knapp played Mary Meredith in ELTC's staged reading of Our American Cousin. She was a company member at Elaine’s Dinner Theater from 2004-2014, serving as artistic director from 2009-2013. For this company, she wrote, directed and starred in Cy Spector’s Spectacular Circus, Zombie Beach Party, Secret Agent Stan, Gone with the Werewolves, Some Like a Shot, Sixteen Candelabras, and CinderElvis. For Cape May Stage, she performed in Moonlight and Magnolias. Holly studied improv at The Upright Citizens Brigade in New York, and obtained a BFA in Musical Theater from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. You can find more of her antics at FrankenFunny.com.

​​​​Mark Edward Lang recently played Sid Davis in ELTC's Ah, Wilderness! ​ Theater and corporate training events have taken him to 35 U.S. states and around the world; including trips to Malaysia and Tanzania. Favorite roles include Alfred Lunt in the biographical drama Lunt and Fontanne: The Celestials of Broadway (FringeNYC and Classic Theatre of San Antonio; also playwright), Captain Robert Scott in Terra Nova and Jack in The Importance of Being Earnest (Hilton Head Playhouse), The Actor in ELTC’s The Guardsman (with wife Alison J. Murphy), seven roles in the Irish comedy Stones in his Pockets (Open Stage of Harrisburg), Kosti in Welcome Home Marian Anderson (Off-Broadway and tour); and ELTC’s Biography, Zorro!, Christopher Bean, The Poe Mysteries, Dulcy, Butter and Egg Man, Why Marry?, The New York Idea, Voice of the City, The Dictator (2001), Four by Four and You and I (Best Actor Jacoby Award, 2007). He’s performed Shakespeare, Molière and new works in NYC on tour; as well as theater workshops and directing, including ELTC’s Anna Christie. Graduate of Vassar College. Member AEA, SAG-AFTRA. His new project is Zelda and Scott: Love Letters (and others), based on the Fitzgeralds’ correspondence. Member AEA and SAG-AFTRA.

﻿Meredith Lark played Mary Turner in ELTC's Within the Law. Most recently Meredith could be seen in Dial M for Murder (New London Barn Playhouse). Some other credits include TV Time (Laurie Beechman Theater), Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Les Miserables, Oklahoma!, Legally Blonde (NLBP), Ancestral Voices (Peterborough Players). Meredith spent two years traveling around Central New York bringing theater to children with Merry-Go-Round Playhouse. Graduate of The Ohio State University BA in theater as well as The National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. www.MeredithLark.com. Member AEA and SAG-AFTRA.﻿

﻿Michele LaRue, raised outside Chicago, has spent most of her life in Secaucus, NJ, working in theater and film in NYC and NJ. Her credits with ELTC include William Dean Howells’ Bride Roses, Susan Glaspell’s Suppressed Desires, and Gayle Stahlhuth’s adaptation of Henry James’ The Beast in the Jungle – all directed by her late husband and ELTC's founder and first artistic director, Warren Kliewer. She was also in Jesse Lynch Williams' The New York Idea, directed by Stahlhuth. For over 25 years, LaRue has been performing throughout the country in one-woman shows. She makes people laugh with her Someone Must Wash the Dishes: An Anti-Suffrage Satire, written by Marie Jenney Howe in 1912, and directed by Kliewer. She makes people gasp in her re-imagined version of Yellow Wallpaper, adapted and originally directed by Kliewer, based on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1892 horror story. She also portrays the Famous First Lady in Eve's Diary, adapted by Stahlhuth, based on the writings of Mark Twain. AND she's been performing Kliewer's own vibrant poetry about life in the theater in Places Please, Act One. LaRue was one of the first to read on porches as part of ELTC's Tales of the Victorians. Now, under her own title, Tales Well Told, she reads works of Kate Chopin, Mary Wilkins Freeman, O. Henry, Dorothy Canfield Fisher and other American writers, in various venues throughout the country. A popular piece recently has been her Gettysburg: One Woman’s War,three stories from Elsie Singmaster's moving 1913 classic book Gettysburg, She is an active member of New Jersey Repertory Company, which specializes in developing and producing new scripts, and the two performing unions: Actors’ Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA. As a theater editor-writer, she is also a member of the Drama Desk, a group of New York drama critics.

﻿Mark Lazar played Nat Miller in ELTC's Ah, Wilderness! and multiple roles in Zorro!. He is a 20-year company member with People's Light & Theatre Company, outside Philadelphia. Some favorite productions there: The Matchmaker, Sense and Sensibility, The Foreigner, The Rainmaker, King Lear, Twelfth Night, Born Yesterday, Camping with Henry and Tom, Sherlock Holmes and The Jersey Lily and The Secret of Sherlock. And Mr. Lazar is The Resident Dame for PLTC’s sell-out British Pantomimes, these past 13 Holiday Seasons. He was a 12-season company member of The North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, performing the classics and 10 Christmas Carols as Ebenezer Scrooge. He was a resident actor at Charlotte Repertory Theatre: Charlotte Award: Best Actor, Max Prince: Laughter on the 23rd Floor; Best Actor, Wallace: Darwin. Mark is a founding member and 10-year veteran of The Madison Rep, and has performed with most of Wisconsin’s other professional theatres including The Milwaukee Rep, American Players Theatre, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Next Act Theatre, Theatre Tesseract, Next Generation Theatre, Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival. Other Regional credits include Cider Mill Playhouse, Festival Stage of Winston Salem, New American Theatre, and national tours with Great American Children’s Theatre Co. He is the voice of Scrooge for First State Children’s Theatre’s live theatrical broadcasts of A Christmas Carol, heard on Delaware Public Radio. Member AEA

﻿Robert LeMaire performed in several ELTC productions including To the Ladies, The Dictator (2001 & 2010), Sherlock Holmes, Three Miraculous Soldiers, The Ransom of Red Chief, Dracula, and Ah, Wilderness! He’s worked sound effects and performed in ELTC’s radio-style Sherlock Holmes Adventures: The Speckled Band, The Blue Carbuncle, and The Norwood Builder, and Holmes and Carter Mysteries. Other performance work includes portraying Herr Drosselmeyer in Cape May Stage's Nutcracker and appear-ing in Vistas of Democracy, a video in NJ Network Public Television's Educational NJ Legacy Series. You may catch his shoulder in the History Channel's Civil War Terror. He directs shows for the Ocean City High School Drama Guild where he is currently working on Stage Door. As ELTC’s Education Director, he directed Robin Hood for the company’s 2017 Summer Student Workshop, and will be helming the workshop again in 2018.

﻿J. M. McDonough For ELTC: Judge Dempsey in Strictly Dishonorable, Ambrose Bierce in the world premiere of David Geible’s Nothing Matters, Mr. Rucastle and the Announcer in the radio-style Sherlock Holmes Adventure of the Copper Beeches, and Rev. Davidson in Rain, directed by Bruce Minnix. Recent work in NYC includes portraying Dr. Tinkey in Augustine Daly’s A Marriage Contract, Senator Langdon in Deep Are the Roots, and various roles in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, at Metropolitan Playhouse. He works on stage, and in television and film in and around New York, and is the voice of a variety of ads, animations and video games. He played Jackie Mason’s foil in the film One Angry Man, had principal roles in television’s Homicide, and was a regular on The Chappelle Show. He received his acting training in New York with Walt Witcover, and with Terry Schreiber at T. Schreiber Studio, as well as in England with actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company. For more information, see www.martymcdonough.com.﻿

﻿Derrick McQueen has been performing ELTC's Paul Robeson Through His Words and Music, written by Gayle Stahlhuth, since 2006 in Cape May. Other venues where he has performed Robeson include Crossroads Theater in New Brunswick, NJ, at the Wildwood Convention Center for an NAACP Fundraising event, The Puffin Foundation in Teaneck, NJ, North Carolina Stage Company in Asheville, and the Newark PAC. McQueen, due to a Dodge Foundation Grant, was the Playwright in Residence at South Jersey Regional Theatre, where his play I Have Been Said to Possess was produced. He's acted with the New York Theatre Workshop, Mabou Mines, Totem Pole Playhouse, and sung at the Cape May Jazz Festival. The characterizations and concerts that he has created based on historical African-Americans, include the journalist Alfred P. Smith, Congressman George White, and abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Derrick took part in the NYC's Culture Project's X-Impact on the Gulf production of Voices of the Storm, life stories from the Mississippi Delta and Louisiana from those impacted by hurricane Katrina. Currently he is an Interim Pastor at St. James Presbyterian Church in Harlem, having recently received his Ph. D. at Union Theological Seminary in the field of Homiletics and New Testament. ﻿

﻿Leon Morgan is a born and raised New Yorker. A graduate of the William Esper Studio, Leon has made several appearances on television, in film, and Off-Broadway, including Gym Shorts at 777 Theater. For ELTC, he portrayed played Tom in the New Jersey premiere of Lost on the Natchez Trace, written by Jan Buttram, and Jim in a world premiere adaptation of Huckleberry Finn written by James Rana. Leon has ﻿been studying improv and sketch writing at the Upright Citizens Brigade, has found a new interest in the works of Marcel Proust. ﻿﻿

﻿Bradley Mott played Dr. Haggett in ELTC's The Late Christopher Bean. Having spent over 30 years “plying the boards” and teaching at Columbia College in Chicago, he moved East to Asbury Park, NJ, where he has appeared in shows at The Centenary Stage Co (A Laughing Matter), Two Rivers Theatre (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Shadow Lawn Stage (The Sunshine Boys, Scapino, Molly Sweeney, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), ReVision Theatre Company (Little Shop of Horrors) and The Actors Shakespeare Company of New Jersey (The Winter’s Tale). His film work included the Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis. Brad also is an Adjunct Professor in the Music and Theatre Arts Department of Monmouth University. Member AEA and SAG-AFTRA.﻿

﻿Alison J. Murphy has appeared in New York productions of Lunt and Fontanne: The Celestials of Broadway (with her husband Mark Edward Lang), Aurora Leigh,The Wound of Love, and ELTC’s Why Marry? at the historic Players Club. Past ELTC productions in Cape May include The Late Christopher Bean, The Dictator, The New York Idea, Voice of the City, Four by Four, Why Marry?, You and I, Dulcy, and The Guardsman. For Access to Art in Cape May, she portrayed Rosalind in As You Like It and Margaret Roper More in Bound by Truth, by Sheila Rinear. She has also worked with American Stage Company and Shakespeare in the Garden, in productions of Cloud Nine, Elephant Man, Extremities, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, The Tempest and Twelfth Night. Film: The Love of My Life (Frank Faralli, director). She also teaches acting workshops. Member AEA.

﻿Mike Newman played Richard Kurt in ELTC's Biography. Regional credits include The Groundling at The Theatre Project, Peter and the Starcatcher and the world premiere of The Almost True and Truly Remarkable Adventures of Israel Potter, American Patriot (as Israel Potter!) at the Winnipesaukee Playhouse, Mornings of April and May at Connecticut Free Shakespeare, and Much Ado About Nothing at White Plains PAC. Recent NY credits include Macbeth with Old Hat Theatre Co. and Life is a Dream with Eager Risk Theatre Co. He is a graduate of Tufts University with a BA in Economics.

﻿Lee O'Connor portrayed Holmes in ELTC’s William Gillette’s Sherlock Holmes, and has portrayed Holmes in all of ELTC's NBC radio-style adventures. He also appeared in ELTC’s The Leach Diaries, The Dictator, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Dick Spindler’s Family Christmas, the staged readings of Henry Sawyer and the Civil War and Our American Cousin, and is a storyteller for ELTC’s “Tales of the Victorians.” Other performing work includes The Odd Couple in Saigon while serving in Vietnam, and traveling throughout the country with his wife, Gayle Stahlhuth, in a two-hander written by Stahlhuth, Not Above A Whisper. Commissioned by The National Portrait Gallery, it was about Dorothea Lynde Dix, who fought for the rights of the indigent mentally ill. Aside from being ELTC’s Technical Director since 1999, he has worked at a variety of regional theaters, and his work in NYC includes Radio City Music Hall, Irish Rep, Primary Stages, and special events for Dancers Over 40. Member AEA.﻿

Jakob Pender played Tommy in ELTC's Ah, Wilderness! He is an 8th grade student who enjoys theater, baseball, and travel. For three summers, from 2014-2016, he's participated in the wonderful Student Theater Workshop at ELTC. In addition, Jakob has been in a variety of school plays including works by Shakespeare and Mark Twain. He plans to be a veterinarian when he grows up.

﻿Jed Peterson portrayed the title role in ELTC's Zorro! He also created the role of Stephen Foster in the new musical Hard Times by Larry Kirwan, featuring the music of Foster. He trained as an actor at the Moscow Art Theatre School in Russia and at the High School of Performing Arts in NYC. He made his stage debut in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker at the New York City Ballet. He made his international debut in He Who Gets Slapped at the Moscow Art Theatre where he became one of only two Americans to have appeared on the theatre’s Main Stage, with the Russian company. Other credits include: McCarter Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Princeton Summer Theater, Marvell Rep, Utah Shakespeare Festival, The Tent Theatre, Summer Theater of New Canaan, Prospect Theatre, Studio Six, and Metropolitan Playhouse in NYC. He is a Resident Artist at The Cell Theatre and a member of the acting company of Playwrights Gallery in NYC. Member AEA and SAG-AFTRA. www.JedQPeterson.com ﻿

Phil Pizzi began his career in broadcasting at WCMC AM/FM in Wildwood, NJ in 1977. He co-hosted Music Plus on the local original cable TV station, featuring bands and interviews with everyone from William Shatner to Weird Al Yankovic. He appeared in The Music Man, Guys & Dolls, and The Odd Couple with the Sea Isle Players. He performed with ELTC in The New York Idea, Why Marry?, It Pays to Advertise, and two Sherlock Holmes' radio-style productions: Adventure of the Copper Beeches and Adventure of the Specked Band . Indie films include The Corner Bar and Bittercress. Phil produces Jersey Cape Fishing, South Jersey's longest running fishing show, distributed on Comcast Cable to over 2 million households throughout the Delaware Valley. In the fall of 2018, he retired as the host of TheMorning Show on 98.7-FM The Coast, WCZT, the most listened-to radio station in Cape May County.

﻿Elisa Pupko was in ELTC's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Zorro! In NYC, she has been seen in The Crucible (Gallery Players), The Children’s Hour (APAC), The Three Sisters (The Seeing Place), Butoh Electra (Fringe NYC - 4th Street Theatre), and various workshops and readings with The Puzzle, Ice Factory Festival, and Sparrow-tree Theatre. Regionally Elisa appeared as the host for The Student’s Live Peter Pan National Tour at The Pantages Theatre, as Liesl in The Sound of Music, and Star-to-Be in Annie. She can also be seen in numerous episodes of College Humor, as a host for About.com, and various commercials and promos. As a native Seattleite, She is a member of AEA. www.elisapupko.com

﻿Thomas Raniszewskiwas in the world premiere of Dying Like Ignacio at the Workshop Theater's Main Stage Theater in New York. East Lynne Theater Company credits include Ah, Wilderness!, Dracula, Strictly Dishonorable,Berkeley Square and It Pays to Advertise. In 2014, he portrayed Tommy in Rachel Handler's 2015 short feature Disabilidates which premiered at the Hollyshorts Film Festival in Hollywood. He received critical acclaim for his role as Warren in the 2011 and ‘12 Philadelphia productions of Tom Jacobson's award-winning psychological drama The Twentieth-Century Way. In May, 2013, he reunited with East Lynne's 2006 cast of Why Marry? for a staged-reading performance in New York City at the prestigious Players Club. Member AEA. ﻿

Tara Reuter played Miss Wells, the maid, in ELTC's Dracula. Other credits include: Arsenic and Old Lace (The Heights Players), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Valley Shakespeare Festival), Encore! National Tour (Chamber Theatre Productions), A Christmas Carol (Hartford Stage), Love, Sex, and the IRS (The Warner Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare on the Sound), Twelfth Night (Fairfield Shakespeare Company), Romeo and Juliet (Fairfield Shakespeare Company), A View From the Bridge (Dir. Kevin Gray), The Taming of the Shrew (Dir. Bob Davis). Tara graduated from The Hartt School with a BFA in Actor Training and currently lives in New York City.

﻿Maria Silverman has appeared twice with ELTC: as Abby in The Late Christopher Bean and the Comtesse in It Pays to Advertise. She made her Broadway debut in the Tony Award-winning revival of A View from the Bridge. She has appeared in over 30 productions, including 15 world premieres. Off-Broadway: Tales from the Tunnel, Beachwood Drive. New York: Rev. George in the Audelco-Award nominated Women in the Pit, Gertie in the NYIT-nominated House of Mirth, Open Rehearsal, Tech Support, Skin.Flesh.Bone., Cool Blues (NFT), Dreamers of the Day, Macbeth, Uncle Vanya, The Contrast, Galileo, S/HE, As You Like It, The Seagull, No Place to Be Somebody (Woodie King, Jr., dir.), Cclit (Atlantic Theater Second Stage), Expressing Willie, Nights at the Circus,Embracing Freedom (Ellis Island). NJ: ANTS (NJ Rep), Shining City (Shadow Lawn), Trio Sonata (Women's Theatre Co.), Darkness to Light (12 Miles West), Camino Real (Arthouse).Regional: Lend Me a Tenor, Tennis in Nablus, Night Train, Trio Sonata, Camino Real,Brighton Beach Memoirs, The Crucible, and Much Ado About Nothing. B.A. in Theatre and Chinese from Yale University; postgraduate training at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. Member AEA and SAG-AFTRA.. mariasilverman@hotmail.com

﻿EvanSmilyk portrayed Richard in ELTC's Ah, Wilderness!, Young Don Diego and several other roles in Zorro!, the title role in Huckleberry Finn, and Renfield in Dracula. He was in several plays at West Cape May Elementary School in a program provided by ELTC due to funding from NJ Theatre Alliance’s Stages Festival. Directed by Gayle Stahlhuth, his roles included the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz. In the after-school program at the same school, he took on the roles of Hamlet and Lady Macbeth. For five years, Evan participated in ELTC’s Summer Theater Workshop. In his past three years at ﻿Richard M. Teitleman School and Lower Township High School, he played Romeo in Jitterbug Juliette, Charlie Bucket in Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and George in The Drowsy Chaperone. He enjoys both soccer and theater.

﻿﻿Marcia Sofley﻿played several roles in ELTC's Huckleberry Finn. She has toured with Seussical (Mrs. Mayor), Nuncrackers (Sister Amnesia), They’re Playing Our Song (Sonia u/s w/ performance), and A Christmas Carol (Belle). Favorite regional credits include Romance/Romance (Josephine/Monica), Winter Wonderettes (Suzy), Nunsensations (Amnesia), Plain and Fancy (Hilda), Hello, Dolly (Minnie Fay), and Meet Me in St Louis (Esther). On TV, Marcia has investigated a murder, married a murderer, joined a cult, been assassinated and encountered some ghosts – in shows on ID, the History Channel and LMN. This North Carolina native now resides in NYC where she performs with the Improvisational Repertory Theatre Ensemble. This is her first show with ELTC. Proud member of AEA. www.marciasofley.com

﻿Gayle Stahlhuth has performed off-Broadway (Manhattan Theatre Club, etc.) in national tours (Cabaret, Fiddler, etc.), regional theater (Gateway Playhouse in Long Island, etc.), television (various soaps, etc.), radio (jingles and Voice of America), and on the Chautauqua Circuit. Since becoming ELTC’s Artistic Director in 1999, she has produced 100 different plays/musicals (some returned for another season), including 21 world premieres and 10 NJ premieres, and directed over half of them. Her adaptations for ELTC include Tales by Twain, that also ran at Surflight Theatre; Spoon River, based on the famous Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, and The Ransom of Red Chief based on O.Henry's classic tale. She’s been awarded commissions from The National Portrait Gallery, the Missouri and Illinois Humanities Councils, and grants from the NJ Humanities Council, the NYS Council on the Arts, and the Mid-Atlantic Foundation for the Arts. For several years she was a judge for the Emmy Awards in the field of broadcasting. She is an Active Member of the Dramatists Guild, SAG-AFTRA, AEA, and the League of Professional Women, who honored her in 2016 for her work in theater. ﻿

﻿Eric Stephenson﻿ was in ELTC's Strictly Dishonorable and Within the Law. Regional: Sunset Boulevard (Fulton Theatre), Jesus Christ Superstar (Winnipesaukee Playhouse), Bitter Sweet (Bard Summerscape), The Last Romance (Seven Angels Theatre), Little Women (Kentucky Repertory Theatre). New York: Miles & Me, Five Points, One Night in New York! (Musical Theatre Factory), Saint Joan (The Secret Theatre), Oliver! (The Gallery Players). Graduate of Muhlenberg College. He thanks his family, friends and Jennie for their support, and Gayle and Lee for having him back! ericstephenson.info.﻿

﻿Susan Tischler was commissioned by ELTC to write/perform Helpful Hints based on Mae Savell Croy's Putnam's Household Handbook (1916). Directed by Karen Case Cook it premiered at The Chalfonte in 2008. During its run at The Mad Batter, Croy's granddaughter from NC came to see the show. Other performances included the annual Red Hat Convention in Cape May and being part of ELTC's mainstage season in 2011. She was in The People of Cape May vs. Johan Van Buren, written by Dutch TV personality Judge Frank Visser, produced by ELTC and directed by Gayle Stahlhuth as part of the 400th Anniversary of the Founding of Cape May. Other credits include portraying Minnie Pearl and co-producing Barry’s Cape May Opry and Barry’s Christmas Opry, proceeds of the latter go to the West Cape May Christmas Parade. Susan is the co-owner of Kaleidoscope and Just for Laughs on the Washington Street Mall in Cape May, and writes for Exit Zero. Her reminiscence of her father, Fred Brown, a coal miner from Pittsburgh, was included in the late Tim Russert’s book Wisdom of Our Fathers, published in 2006. ﻿

﻿Joseph Travers was the fight director for ELTC's Zorro! (rehearsal pictured left) and Within the Law. He has created fights, stunts and action sequences for stage and screen for twenty-five years. Recent work includes the Broadway production of Bronx Bombers and Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle, featured at the 2013 Shanghai International Experimental Theatre Festival. He also staged fights for the world premiers of Adam Rapp’s Essential Self – Defense and Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone at Playwrights Horizons. His work has been seen at Irish Repertory Theatre, Primary Stages, Harbor Stage Company, American Globe Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, the NY Renaissance Festival and on tour with the National Shakespeare Company. He holds the rank of Certified Fight Director and Certified Teacher with both the Society of American Fight Directors and Fight Directors Canada. He teaches stage combat at Columbia University and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in NY. Since 1995 he has been the managing director of Swordplay, a NYC-based company that provides instruction in safe and effective stage combat techniques to professional actors. ﻿

Fred Velde is a native New Yorker and has been part of the New York theater scene for over thirty years. He has been a member of The Harbor Theatre since 1995 and is currently a member of The Workshop Theater. His theatre credits include The Price of Geniuson Broadway, Sex by Mae West, Off-Broadway, and Traveling Souls in Moscow as a member of The Phoenix Ensemble. For ELTC, he played Dr. McPhail in Rain, Chris in Anna Christie, Mr. Forbes in Dulcy, Detective Dupin in The Poe Mysteries, and Dr Watson in The Copper Beeches, The Speckled Band, and The Blue Carbuncle. As well as theater, he has appeared in film, soaps, Comedy Central and commercials. He is a member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA.

R. Scott Williams (Melchior Feydak) is pleased to be making his ELTC debut! He is a New York based actor with experience in both musicals and plays, in classical and contemporary works.Recent appearances include The Fantasticks (Cider Mill Playhouse, NY), Witness for the Prosecution (Olney Theatre Center), and She Stoops to Conquer (Hudson Warehouse, NYC). Other NYC appearances include Taming of the Shrew, Three Musketeers, King Lear(twice!), Richard III, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Julius Caesar. Scott has appeared in 46 states thanks to two national tours and has given hundreds of performances of Shear Madness at the Kennedy Center in DC.He spent five seasons with Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre (Big River, Brigadoon, Bye Bye Birdie, Once Upon a Mattress, A Funny Thing…Forum) and has appeared at numerous regional theaters throughout the country including Arena Stage, The Shakespeare Theatre Co., Globe Playhouse, and Pioneer Theatre Lab.Film/TV appearances include Veep, The Wire, The West Wing, A Modest Suggestion, and John Waters’s Pecker. AEA and SAG-AFTRA.

﻿Hillary Wilson played several roles in ELTC's Within the Law. Shehas performed in several shows with Greater Ocean City Theatre Company, including Guys and Dolls, Cinderella, and the world premiere of Uberboy: The Story of a Hero. Hillary is a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College, where she received her BA in Theatre Performance with a minor in Musical Theatre. TV/Film credits include The History Channel, The ADL, and the lead role in the short film, Touch. For ELTC, she performed in Within the Law.﻿

﻿John Cameron Weber has performed for six seasons with ELTC. He was in last year's production of Within the Law, and before that trod the boards in Legend of Sleepy Hollow and before that trod the boards in It Pays To Advertise, The World of Dorothy Parker, He and She, The Dictator, and The Butter and Egg Man. He has appeared in commercials and soaps, various regional theaters and National (Damn Yankees, 1776) and European (West Side Story, Guys and Dolls) tours. His favorite roles? Abel Frake (State Fair), Inspector Hubbard (Dial M for Murder) and the Gangsters in Kiss Me Kate. He also enjoyed sinking on the Titanic several times. Member AEA and SAG-AFTRA

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